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Updated February 3, 2024
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Red Team Blues
Cory Doctorow
Paper Book
2024 LOCUS AWARD FINALIST, BEST SF NOVEL Money-laundering, cyber-knavery and shell-company chicanery: Marty Hench is an expert in them all. He's Silicon Valley's most accomplished forensic accountant and well versed in the devious ways of Fortune 500s, divorcing oligarchs, and...
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Games for Dead Girls
Williams, Jen
Paper Book
Treading the fine line where the supernatural ends and real human monstrosity begins, GAMES FOR DEAD GIRLS is a haunting, dark read, perfect for fans of Jennifer Hillier and Alex North. Hithechurch, a peaceful, out-of-the-way seaside town in Kent. When Charlie...
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Simul
Andrew Caldecott
Paper Book
'Remember Simul' - the last words of a dying man, and the key to mankind's survival. Words which will take Morag, Fogg and their friends on a wild ride through caverns and over mountain tops, into old paintings, to a university unlike any other and up the...
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The dragons of Deepwood Fen
Beaulieu, Bradley P.
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Lorelei Aurelius is the smartest inquisitor in the mountain city of Ancris. When a mysterious tip leads her to a clandestine meeting between the Church and the hated Red Knives, she uncovers a plot that threatens not only her home but the empire itself. The trail leads to Rylan...
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Antimatter Blues
Edward Ashton
Paper Book
The thrilling follow-up to Mickey7, soon to be a major motion picture by Academy Award-winning director Bong Joon-Ho. Summer has come to Niflheim. The lichens are growing, the six-winged bat-things are chirping, and much to his own surprise, Mickey Barnes is still alive-...
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Storming Heaven
Miles Cameron
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Before iron helmets and steel swords, when dragons roamed the world, was an age of bronze and stone, when the Gods walked the earth, and people lived in terror. A scribe, a warlord, a dancer, a mute insect and a child should have no chance against the might of the...
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Silent City
Sarah Davis-Goff
Paper Book
From the author of LAST ONES LEFT ALIVE comes the story of young female warrior who must start a revolution if she and those she loves are to survive. 'A provocative gobsmacker of a novel' Joseph O'Connor'A moving, deeply feminist take on the ever-popular...
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The Sisterhood
Katherine Bradley
Paper Book
PRE-ORDER THE INSTITUTE, THE NEW HIGH-CONCEPT PSYCHOLOGICAL THRILLER BY KATHERINE BRADLEY, OUT SPRING 2026. 'Frightening and timely, Bradley's The Sisterhood is the book everyone should read this year. If you thought it ended with Orwell, think again . . .'...
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The Principle of Moments
Esmie Jikiemi-Pearson
Paper Book
THE INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER AND FIRST EVER WINNER OF THE FUTURE WORLDS PRIZE __________________ 'My favourite kind of grand space opera' BEN AARONOVITCH 'An audaciously joyous debut full of heart' NALINI SINGH
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Children of the Sun
Beth Lewis
Paper Book
THROUGH THE DARK TIMES, THEY WILL HELP YOU FIND THE LIGHT . . . *** 'Dazzling, chilling, moving and original . . . I loved it' CHRIS WHITAKER 'A captivating novel of love and loss and the lengths we will go to start again' SOPHIE WARD 'A beautifully crafted mystery...
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Chain-gang all-stars
Adjei-Brenyah, Nana Kwame
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FIGHT FOR FREEDOM. FIGHT FOR LOVE. WELCOME TO THE KILLING GROUND. 'America's new Hunger Games' Sunday Times 'So good. This one is from the heart' Stephen King 'Brutal, thrilling, devastating and beautiful' The Times
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War bodies
Asher, Neal L.
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Rebellion could be their salvation - or their doom. War Bodies is a gripping, high-octane standalone novel set in Neal Asher's expansive Polity universe. Implanted with secret technology, Piper was raised to be a weapon against the dictatorial Old Guard. When rebellion...
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Hell Bent: The Global Sensation from the Creator of Shadow and Bone
Bardugo, Leigh
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THE INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLING SEQUEL TO NINTH HOUSE THE GOODREADS CHOICE AWARD WINNER FOR BEST FANTASY OF 2023 __________________ Wealth. Power. Murder. Magic. Alex Stern is back and the Ivy League is going straight to hell.<...
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Creation node
Baxter, Stephen
Paper Book
In the year 2255, of all the sentient beings in her universe, it was a woman named Salma, twenty years old, who was the first fully to see the object called Planet Nine. See with her own eyes, albeit moderated by her ship's instruments. If not to recognise what it was, not yet. Not...
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Venomous Lumpsucker
Beauman, Ned
Paper Book
*SUNDAY TIMES SCIENCE FICTION NOVEL OF THE YEAR* 'A novel that delights, dazzles and moves in equal measure' Financial Times 'Brutally satirical and grimly hilarious' Daily Mail The venomous lumpsucker is the most...
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Bridge
Beukes, Lauren
Paper Book
The mind-bending new masterpiece from the multi-award-winning author of Apple TV's smash hit literary adaptation SHINING GIRLS, starring Elizabeth Moss. 'Addictive, fascinating and compelling page-turner' - Guardian 'A high-concept page-turner'<...
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The Atlas Complex
Blake, Olivie
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The Atlas Complex marks the much-anticipated, heart-shattering conclusion in Olivie Blake's trilogy that began with the internationally bestselling dark academic phenomenon, The Atlas Six. Only the extraordinary are chosen. Only the cunning survive. ...
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The Atlas Paradox
Blake, Olivie
Paper Book
Discover The Atlas Paradox, the electric dark academia sequel to viral sensation The Atlas Six by Olivie Blake - a No. 1 Sunday Times bestseller. Inside the Alexandrian Society alliances will be tested, hearts will be broken and all must pick a side. ...
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Blue skies : a novel
Boyle, T. Coraghessan
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The joyfully freewheeling, funny and profound new novel from 'one of the most inventive, adventurous and accomplished fiction writers in the US today' (Lionel Shriver) Welcome to America. On the east coast, homes are being swallowed by the ocean; on the west coast, California...
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Light bringer
Brown, Pierce
Paper Book
THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER! Darrow returns as Pierce Brown's New York Times bestselling Red Rising series continues in the thrilling sequel to Dark Age. The Reaper is a legend, more myth than man: the savior of worlds,...
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Infinity gate
Carey, M. R.
Paper Book
'A GENUINE TREAT FOR SF FANS: AN EPIC MULTIVERSE TALE THAT MOVES LIKE A THRILLER' Kirkus **SHORTLISTED FOR THE PHILIP K. DICK AWARD** From the international bestselling M. R. Carey comes a thrilling novel set in the multiverse - the tale of...
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Love and Other Human Errors
Clift, Bethany
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An unforgettable story about love in all its chaotic glory from the author of Last One At The Party A book synopsis is fundamentally ridiculous. How can I possibly convey, in only 100 words, the events of the past year and their impact on my perfectly ordered existence?...
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Leviathan falls
Corey, James S. A.
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Memory's Legion: The Complete Expanse Story Collection
Corey, James S. A.
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The Ferryman
Cronin, Justin
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'Next to impossible to put down . . . exciting, mysterious, and totally satisfying.' STEPHEN KING ***** The islands of Prospera lie in a vast ocean: in splendid isolation from the rest of humanity, or whatever remains of it. . . ...
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The lost cause
Doctorow, Cory
Paper Book
It's thirty years from now and we're making progress, mitigating climate change, slowly but surely. But what about all the angry people who can't let go? For young Americans a generation from now, climate change isn't controversial, it's just an overwhelming fact of life. But...
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Red Team Blues
Doctorow, Cory
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Money-laundering, cyber-knavery and shell-company chicanery: Marty Hench is an expert in them all. He's Silicon Valley's most accomplished forensic accountant and well versed in the devious ways of Fortune 500s, divorcing oligarchs, and international drug cartels alike (and there's more crossover...
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Faebound
El-Arifi, Saara.
Paper Book
THE INSTANT #1 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER 'Exquisite fantasy, with a complex, mysterious, and sumptuous world of elves, fae, and gloriously compelling romance - so enthralling, it has wrapped its magic around my heart and set it alight' HANNAH KANER, bestselling author of Godkiller ...
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Emily Wilde's Map of the Otherlands
Fawcett, Heather
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'Forget dark academia: give me instead this kind of winter-sunshined, sharp-tongued and footnoted academia, full of field trips and grumpy romance' Freya Marske, author of A Marvellous Light An intrepid professor must uncover faerie secrets in the delightful and...
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Dead Water: A Novel of Folk Horror
Fletcher, C. A.
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AND THE WATER SHALL CALL THEM HOME A water-borne blight hits a small community on a remote Scottish island. The residents are a mix of island-born and newcomers seeking a slower life away from the modern world; all have their own secrets, some much darker than others. Some...
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The Women Could Fly
Giddings, Megan
Paper Book
Reminiscent of the works of Margaret Atwood, Deborah Harkness, and Octavia E. Butler, The Women Could Fly is a queer feminist speculative novel that speaks to our times - a piercing dystopian tale, set in a world in which magic is real and single women are closely monitored in case they...
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Vanished birds
Jim©?nez, Simon
Paper Book
"This is where your life begins." Nia Imani is a woman out of place and outside of time. Decades of travel through the stars are condensed into mere months for her, though the years continue to march steadily onward for everyone she has ever known. The captain of a transport ship...
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Before Saying Goodbye
Kawaguchi, Toshikazu
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The million-copy bestselling series. Toshikazu Kawaguchi's poignant Before We Say Goodbye, translated from Japanese, explores the age-old question: what would you do if you could travel back in time? More importantly, who would you want to meet, maybe for one last time?...
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Nettle & Bone
Kingfisher, T.
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**Winner, Hugo Awards 2023, Best Novel** **Shortlisted, SFWA Nebula Awards 2022, Best Novel** A dark and compelling fantasy about sisterhood, impossible tasks and the price of power, from award...
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Prophet
MacDonald, Helen
Paper Book
YOUR HAPPIEST MEMORY IS THEIR DEADLIEST WEAPON. 'Fabulous... Present-day science fiction that feels like the best sort of spy novel' NEIL GAIMAN, author of Coraline This is Prophet. It knows when you were happiest. It gives life to your...
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In ascension
MacInnes, Martin
Paper Book
If Richard Powers had written Arrival, an astonishing novel that is set to break out Martin MacInnes as one of the most important literary voices of his generation
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Sea of Tranquility
Mandel, Emily St. John
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From Vancouver Island in 1912 to a dark colony of the moon three hundred years later. The Sunday Times bestseller, Sea of Tranquility by Emily St. John Mandel is a story of parallel worlds and possibilities that plays with the very line along which time should run.
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A marvellous light
Marske, Freya
Paper Book
Set in an alternative Edwardian England, this is a comedy of manners, manor houses, and hedge mazes - a magic-infused murder mystery and a delightful queer romance. Perfect for fans of Bridgerton who'd like to welcome magic into their lives . . . 'This book is a...
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How High We Go in the Dark
Nagamatsu, Sequoia
Paper Book
SHORTLISTED FOR THE WATERSTONES DEBUT FICTION PRIZE 2022 FINALIST FOR THE BARNES & NOBLE DISCOVER PRIZE 2022 FINALIST FOR THE URSULA LE GUIN PRIZE FOR FICTION 2022 WATERSTONES AND ESQUIRE BEST BOOKS OF 2022 'Haunting and luminous ... An...
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For the first time, again
Neuvel, Sylvain
Paper Book
When you don't know The Rules it's hard to stay safe. After a traumatic incident, Aster finds that her blood work comes back with some unusual readings. Unsurprising, as she's the last of an alien race called the Kibsu. But Aster doesn't know this. Immediately, Aster finds herself the focus of a...
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The Men
Newman, Sandra
Paper Book
The dazzling new novel from the acclaimed author of The Heavens asks: what if the price of a better world was losing the person you love?
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Fractal noise
Paolini, Christopher
Paper Book
Fractal Noise is the thrilling prequel to the masterful space opera To Sleep in a Sea of Stars by internationally bestselling author of Eragon, Christopher Paolini. On the planet Talos VII, twenty-three years before the events of To Sleep in a Sea of...
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Expect Me Tomorrow
Priest, Christopher
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A petty thief who called himself John Smith was arrested in 1877, for theft through fraudulent behaviour. He was convicted and sent to prison. In 1852, Adler and Adolf Beck's father died on a glacier, and their lives separated. One became a respected climate scientist; the...
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Eversion
Reynolds, Alastair
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Eversion is a superb, original Gothic SF novel. A small group of intrepid explorers are in search of a remote and mysterious artefact. It's a well-funded expedition, well organised, which is lucky as they're sailing north of Bergen on the schooner Demeter, searching for a narrow...
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Machine vendetta
Reynolds, Alastair
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Panoply is a small, efficient police force, dedicated to maintaining the rule of democracy among the ten thousand disparate city states orbiting the planet Yellowstone. Ingvar Tench was one of Panoply's most experienced operatives. So why did she walk alone and virtually unarmed into...
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A Day of Fallen Night
Shannon, Samantha
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'A magnificent, sweeping epic' JENNIFER SAINT, Sunday Times-bestselling author of ARIADNE 'Shannon is simply a master of the genre' C. S. PACAT, New York Times-bestselling author of DARK RISE 'A tremendous triumph' LONDON SHAH,...
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Cold People
Smith, Tom Rob
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'An ambitious, cinematic thriller' Observer 'A talented storyteller' The Times 'A cinematic epic' Daily Mail What if the only hope for survival becomes the greatest threat? From the brilliant,...
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Eyes of the Void
Tchaikovsky, Adrian
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A thrilling far-future space adventure, and the second instalment in the epic Final Architecture Trilogy, from this Arthur C. Clarke award-winning author of Children of Time, Adrian Tchaikovsky. What waits in the shadows as we fight our greatest foe? ...
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Terrible Worlds: Revolutions
Tchaikovsky, Adrian
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Three acclaimed novellas by the Arthur C. Clarke-award-winning "British master of science fiction" The Future Is Oppression. Scions, sonko, landlords: whatever you call them, they're the super rich, the princes of capitalism, living off the labour - and the...
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Voyage of the Damned
White, Frances.
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To mark the thousandth year of peace in the Empire of Concordia, the emperor's ship embarks upon a twelve-day voyage. Aboard are the heirs of the twelve provinces of Concordia, each graced with a unique magical ability known as a Blessing. Except one- Ganymedes Piscero. ...
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Three Eight One
Whiteley, Aliya.
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An astonishing literary crossover novel about the pressures of growing up and the nature of authorship. In January 2314, Rowena Savalas - a curator of the vast archive of the twenty-first century's primitive internet - stumbles upon a story posted in the summer of 2024. She's...
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The Foxglove King
Whitten, Hannah
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'Hannah Whitten is my new favourite obsession' Jodi Picoult, New York Times-bestselling author 'Sinister, deadly and so seductive you won't be able to tear yourself away from this dark gem of a book' Stephanie Garber, New York Times-bestselling author
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